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- Kill Your Anger… This is where you go into the area of verbal fabrication and mental fabrication. How are you talking to yourself about the situation? Is what you’re saying really true? Is it really beneficial to talk about it that way? You can think of something irritating that someone has done again and again and again and again. Just thinking about that—that it’s …
- What You’re Choosing to Do Right Now… feelings, perceptions, fabrications, consciousness. The fact that you are fabricating these things… The way the Buddha explains it is that there’s a potential for all of these things coming in from the past, and you decide that you want a feeling, or you want a perception, so you fabricate those potentials into something you actually experience right now. What this means is that …
- Consistently on the Path… bodily fabrication, the way you breathe; verbal fabrication, the way you talk to yourself; and mental fabrication, the feelings you focus on and the perceptions you hold in mind, the images you give to yourself of the world and of yourself. As long as we do these things in ignorance, they’re going to cause suffering. If we bring some knowledge to them, they …
- More than a Sliver of Mindfulness… That allows you to look into that process of fabrication and you’ll be right on target. The problem is right there. As the Buddha said, we suffer because we fabricate things in ignorance, but we can bring knowledge to the process of fabrication. Then it becomes part of the path. And it’s sustained by developing a sense of well-being that you …
- Questions of Skill… seeing things clearly; where they come from; where they go; how you fabricate them. Well, here you’re fabricating a big fabrication—the fabrication of the mind in concentration. As Ajaan Fuang used to say, “Don’t go looking at things outside. The big problem is inside.” When the mind says that things are inconstant, stressful, not-self, the problem is not the things …
- The Broken Gong… Your inner commentary involves two levels of fabrication: what the Buddha called verbal fabrication, which is your conversation inside about the pain, and mental fabrication, the perceptions, the images you hold in mind and around the pain. One important perception to question concerns the relationship between your sensation of the body and the sensation of the pain. Are they right in the same spot …
- Chewed Up by Your Food… You’ve got the form clinging-aggregate, the feeling clinging-aggregate, the perception clinging-aggregate, fabrications and consciousness clinging-aggregates. The word for “clinging,” upadana, can also mean sustenance. We try to feed off of these things. Particularly, we try to feed off the pleasure that these things have to offer. We look for pleasure in physical things, we look for pleasant feelings, pleasant …
- Not Getting What You Want… All of these things are called saṅkhāra, fabrication. They’re things you put together. The Buddha wants you to get really good at this, because the path as a whole is the best fabricated thing there is in the world. As you put it together, you begin to gain some insight into how you not only put this together, but how you also put …
- For What It’s Worth… This way, when the Dhamma eye arises—in other words, the point of stream-entry—you’ve been seeing how you fabricate distracting thoughts and you’ve been seeing how you can fabricate very subtle states of concentration, so your sensitivity to fabrication is more and more acute. The mind reaches a point where it has no fabrication in the present moment at all …
- The Karma that Ends Karma… What is it made out of? Mostly verbal fabrication and mental fabrication. The verbal fabrication is directed thought and evaluation, two of the factors of jhana. Directed thought is when you focus your intention on an object; evaluation is when you examine the object, seeing whether you like it, don’t like it, what comments you have to make on it. These two processes …
- Dhamma Intelligence… You also begin to see mental fabrication, verbal fabrication as they’re happening right here, right now, and you gain some control over them. That’s going to be really helpful. That’ll be a necessary skill as you approach death: to see how the mind fabricates things, and to watch out for any unskillful fabrications that’ll come up. Your practical experience, your …
- Things As They Function… You trace them back to clinging and craving, feeling, sensory contact, the senses, name-and-form—in other words, your sense of the body, activities in the mind—consciousness, and fabrication. Fabrication here is three things: bodily fabrication, your in-and-out breath; verbal fabrication, your thoughts about an object, when you direct your thinking to an object and evaluate it, make comments on …
- Issues of Control… In the Buddha’s breath meditation instructions, he talks about bodily fabrication and mental fabrication. Bodily fabrication, of course, is the in-and-out breath itself. You train yourself to be aware of the whole body as you breathe in and breathe out. Then you try to calm the bodily fabrication. Why he uses that technical term may have to do with the fact …
- Hurtful Memories… In the same way, you step back, get out of your full emotional involvement with the memory, and see it simply as a process of the mind where the mind fabricates these things and then falls for its own fabrications, forgetting that it’s fabricated them. It’s like that old riddle: You’re dreaming that you’re in a boat and all the …
- Dhamma Medicine for Free… If you do all these processes— bodily fabrication, verbal fabrication, and mental fabrication—with as much knowledge as possible, that cuts through a lot of the suffering that would ordinarily develop around the breath. We don’t think of there being much suffering around the breath, but if there’s a sense of dis-ease in the body, it begins to spread into the …
- Teaching Old Selves New Tricks… It’s right next to your verbal fabrication. It’s bodily fabrication, and the fact that it’s a fabrication means that you can tell the breath to do different things: for instance, to breathe in a way that calms you down, keeps you nourished, so that you’re not so desperate to get quick results. You’ve got some goodness. You’ve got …
- Tuning-in to the Breath… It’s a fabrication, a sankhara. In one of the suttas, the Buddha says that all the different khandhas, all the different aggregates that make up experience as a whole, have to get shaped into aggregates by the process of fabrication. In other words, there’s a potential for a form, a potential for a feeling, potential for perception, fabrication, consciousness; and the act …
- Dwelling in Emptiness… In the same way, as the mind gets more and more still, the different levels of fabrication fall away: Verbal fabrication falls away as you enter the second jhana. Bodily fabrication, the in-and-out breath, falls away as you enter the fourth. You start going into the formless jhanas and the different levels of perception: The perception of space is more gross than …
- Purity Comes Through Discernment… They require that we do some fabrication. The main kinds of fabrication the Buddha talked about are directed thought and evaluation, and feeling and perception, although the breath also comes under the topic of fabrication. The way you breathe in relationship to some things actually will change your relationship to them. This is why he starts meditation with the breath, getting to know the …
- Self View & Conceit… And because you’ve gotten used to seeing how the mind fabricates states, you recognize this as something not fabricated. You know you didn’t do it. But the fabrication of the path got you to the threshold. After having that experience, you come out of it. And in coming out of it, that’s where the fetters get cut. The very first time …
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